2014/01/27

So I finally got it. Ever since seeing the first concept video of Google Glass I wanted one. Badly. I went to great lengths to get one, failed, tried again, failed again, flamed Google on G+ and at the end somehow managed to get one.

It arrived on Thursday and I have been wearing it since. It's awesome. It really is. And of course it has bugs, but it's not a finished product yet anyway.

It's interesting that I did not face more Privacy related discussions, given the fact that I was at 2 Software related events in the last few days: Our overdue X-Mas party and the Austria Game Jam.

The Picture Quality is OK, you can check for yourself at my AGJ2014 album.
Video recording could have better audio - you barely hear others when they stand next to me. See my presentation of our AGJ2014 game to know what I mean.

Here is a quick recap about my experience with Glass so far:

Cool things:

Winking to take a picture is the most practical thing EVER. I take a ton of pictures and videos with my Nexus 4, now I take even more.

I don't wear a watch because it sucks to wear one when you are at the keyboard 24x7. Now I have one in sight all the time.

Navigation has never been cooler.

Bad things:

Why does the start screen not show the date? Seriously!

Calling somebody sucks big time. The quality you hear and the quality the other end gets are so terrible that it's unusable.

When you use something that requires quite a lot of processing (WordLens / Video recording) the device gets quite warm which is uncomfortable.